shape

Example Sentences

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Cut out those individual errors, shape up without the ball, see out Arundell's sin-bin period and turn the screw in the scrum and there was a narrow, theoretical route back into the game.

From BBC

Rice, the far-side midfielder, filled in at defensive midfield, ensuring Arsenal's shape remained similar, only with different players arriving in each zone.

From BBC

“I’m a little nervous about the whole soft landing here because households are overall in good financial shape,” said Marc Giannoni, chief U.S. economist at Barclays.

From The Wall Street Journal

Many of these restaurants had prix fixe menus that typically offered spaghetti, “because it was the primary shape that people were eating most of the time,” he explains.

From Salon

An international group of astronomers has identified a faraway planetary system that calls into question one of the most widely accepted ideas about how planets take shape.

From Science Daily